As Congress sorts through President Barack Obama’s proposed budget, organizations working on the Mississippi River like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are waiting to see how the funding could impact navigation and environmental projects near Wisconsin.

Paul Taylor is a senior fellow at the Pew Research Center and author of "The Next America." During a talk at Marquette University, he said there are two slow-motion, but profound demographic changes taking place in the United States.

People who were uninsured last year have a chance to avoid a penalty on their future taxes, now that the federal government has extended the sign-up period for getting health coverage through the federally run marketplace.

The leader of the minority Democrats in the state Assembly says that Walker's announcement that he'd sign right-to-work legislation is an example of how the governor has misled the people of Wisconsin.

State and local officials are confused as to why Gov. Scott Walker has proposed transferring southwest Wisconsin’s Kickapoo Valley Reserve from the Department of Tourism to the Department of Natural Resources. Many people voiced their opposition to the switch during a community meeting Thursday night.

After an announcement from Republican leadership that they would hold a special vote next week to make Wisconsin a right-to-work state, a spokeswoman for Gov. Scott Walker said the governor would sign the legislation.

The editor of The Progressive Magazine and a former Republican state lawmaker had starkly different reactions to President Barack Obama's remarks earlier this week regarding religious extremism. On Wednesday, Obama explained his administration’s response to violent attacks by the Islamic State group, also called ISIS, during a three-day Summit on...